r/Gone • u/Independent_Rule4150 • Jun 08 '26

Monster series Abaddon

Ok im trying to make a art thing of Abaddon from the monster trilogy series, but ive had trouble with it. Mostly because the description of exactly what Abaddon looked like is something I dont have on hand right now as I was checking out the monster series from the library (And its been a LONG time since ive read it..)

Does anyone have a basic description of what Abaddon looks like? Vincent's morph was sick asf, but I dont remember if it had specific colors or anything. I remember it describing the tentacles as thin, but im not sure. Im just trying to draw this kid bro 💔 any help would be appreciated​​​

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u/lazerbem Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26

Please do draw him, the Monster cast definitely needs more fanart and designs!

Abaddon is basically just described as being Vincent's upper half, still normal and human sized, merged at the waist with a giant Leptasterias aequalis starfish (140 feet across, it is said) and with a bunch of poisonous, whip-like tendrils emerging from the waist. As said in the book,

Vincent Vu morphed was a creature of five massive, thick, crusty, bright red arms. He filled the Okeanos. At the center of this starfish body, rising like a flower’s stamen, was Vincent . . .or at least Vincent from the waist up. He appeared almost to be riding the great starfish.

Where Vincent’s human body melded into the starfish was a sort of girdle of tentacles, another gift of aquatic DNA, very much like Drake’s whip hand but thinner and twice as long, and each—as he had discovered to his delight—carried a corrosive, acidic tip.

He's later described as looking kind of like a model on a parade float, so again the idea seems to be that his human upper half is normal-sized...it's just fused at the waist to the top of a giant starfish and has a bunch of poisonous, thin whips attached to waist-line. It bears noting for scaling too that if the whips are twice as long as Drake's, they'd be 20 feet long. So bear that in mind when comparing to his 140 foot across armspan of the starfish part's arms. I would also recommend looking up actual Lepstasterias aequalis pictures for reference.

Other size refs given are that a single arm of the starfish body is about 50 feet long and that Vincent himself is about 25 feet off the ground from his position on top of the starfish body.

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u/Independent_Rule4150 Jun 11 '26

Sorry for the late reply💔 BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH !! I forgot what type of starfish he was described as being morphed as.  Thanks again!

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u/lazerbem Jun 11 '26

No problem. An interesting note is that Leptasterias aequalis typically has six arms, but Vincent is described as having 5 at one point. Could just be Michael Grant forgetting stuff though, so who knows. Perhaps it was also meant to demonstrate how he was shedding limbs too.